Part I -- Futuristic Visions of Urbanity and Socio-Economic Expulsions --
The Impossibility of World-Class Slum-Free Indian Cities and the Fantasy of 'Two Indias' -- Tara van Dijk --
Guarded Luxotopias and Expulsions in New Delhi: Aesthetics and Ideology of Outer and Inner Spaces of an Urban Utopia -- Tereza Kuldova --
Golden or Green? Growth Infrastructures and Resistance in Goa -- Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Solano Jose Savio Da Silva --
Vikasanam: The Expansionist Choreography of Space-Making in Kerala -- Mathew A. Varghese --
Cities of Neoliberal Future: Urban Utopia in Indian Science Fiction Cinema -- Shiju Sam Varughese --
Part II -- Urban Megalomaniac Visions and Heritage Utopias --
Manifesting Sri Lankan Megalomania: The Rajapakscs' Vision of Empire and of a Clean Colombo -- Oivind Fuglerud --
A Modern Chakravartin: Mayawati's Ncw Buddhist Visual Culture -- Melia Belli Bose --
Past as a Metaphor in the New Utopian Imaginations of Heritage in Kerala -- Rachel A. Varghese --
Excavating the City: Metro Rail Construction and Imagination of Past in Contemporary Jaipur -- Garima Dhabhai --
Part III -- Urban Queer Utopias and Bodily Expulsions --
Utopia or Elsewhere: Queer Modernities in Small Town West Bengal -- Paul Boyce and Rohit K. Dasgupta --
Utopia Interrupted: Indian Sex/Gender Dissident Activism and the Everyday Search for a Life Worth Living -- Caroline Osella --
Queerness's Domain?: Queer Negotiations, Utopian Visions and the Failures of Heterotopias in Bangalore -- Jacquelyn P. Strey --
Epilogue: The Promise of Urbanity—How the City Makes Life Worth Living -- Robert Pfaller --